"The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper sent him abroad to write 'trench-coat prose' about black Americans volunteering in the International Brigades. … Hughes's 22 articles covered an angle no one else in the world was focused on as companies such as the Abraham Lincoln and Washington Brigades were not only integrated but featured Negro commanders leading white […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM on February 25, 2020